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by Taek 6y ago
We built an alternative to IPFS called Skynet that attempts to solve a couple of the major issues with IPFS. The biggest one being data durability and uptime. On Skynet, pinning doesn't mean hosting the file from your machine, it means
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by Taek 6y ago
They'll be on the same fork as everyone else who didn't update, which may in fact be the dominant fork.
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by Taek 6y ago
A lot of the CVE's there are pretty minor. There hasn't been a serious but in Bitcoin core that I know of since 2018, and the one before that was in 2016. Not perfect, but overall I think that's a pretty decent track record.
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by Taek 6y ago
Many of the core developers live in the US jurisdiction under a public identity. Many of the major corporations in the space such as BitGo and Coinbase also are in the US jurisdiction. If everyone is anonymous, you can probably ignore the p
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by Taek 6y ago
Bitcoin is set up such that there is no auto-updating feature. Any change to Bitcoin must be accepted manually by all participants. But there's still a question of "how many people actually review the changelog before updating?&qu
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by Taek 6y ago
A lot of blockchain clients (including Bitcoin) have no auto update feature.
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by Taek 6y ago
Ultimately you'd have to decide which one you want to treat as the canonical chain. There would be two (or more) parallel histories, and users would have to figure out which one they wanted to follow. By default, all users would go alo
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by Taek 6y ago
You don't have the power to cause inflation. There is a material difference between stealing coins and double spending. Stealing coins implies you can rewrite anyone's balance to be your own balance. Double spending requires havin
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by Taek 6y ago
You can't 'just add any transaction', the transaction has to follow the rules of the protocol (such as respecting prior owners of coins, respecting the total number of coins in circulation, etc) otherwise the block will be ig
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by Taek 6y ago
Most proponents of Proof of Work don't celebrate the use of energy. They celebrate the use cases that PoW enables. I don't know of any other way to trustlessly establish a consensus ordering, and I believe that being able to trust
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by Taek 6y ago
Handshake is not Eth based it runs on its own blockchain. There are still fees but they are quite small. Less than a penny per update currently.
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by Taek 6y ago
The big difference with Skynet is that you pay for professionals to pin the data on your behalf. It works better for unpopular files because you aren't relying on the uptime of people at home. It also works better for popular files bec
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by Taek 6y ago
Disobeying a national security order from the federal government typically lands you in jail. Police raids and injunctions are both on the table.
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by Taek 6y ago
I think it remains a valid question though. What if we had handled the unemployment by creating infrastructure jobs instead of universal handouts? That has the added benefit of increasing the productive output of our economy.
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by Taek 6y ago
I have a BS in CS. 90% of the concurrency I know is self taught, 98% of the I/O I know is self taught , 85% of the networking I know is self taught. I went to RPI, which is not an ivy school but it is a good engineering school.
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by Taek 6y ago
You are downvoted probably because it seemed snarky but I thought it was an interesting point and appreciated it.
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by Taek 6y ago
When you are a teenager you feel invincible and you value life much less. It feels more expendable while also feeling more robust. Have you spent time with kids? They love kicking eachother in the balls well past the age of toddler. Things
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by Taek 6y ago
A key point that people often miss is that an armed population is extremely difficult to control even if the oppressor has vastly superior equipment and training. The citizenry has the advantage of living there all the time, of being able t
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by Taek 6y ago
It's a lot harder to kidnap citizens when they are armed and surrounded by other armed citizens, especially if all of those citizens have substantial firearms training. I endorse bringing guns to peaceful protests in a state where unma
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by Taek 6y ago
Martial arts goes a lot further than I think most people realize. You gain pain tolerance, bodily self control, and a greatly increased awareness of your vitals and physical limits. In the protests where you see people covering tear gas can
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by Taek 6y ago
I agree. The situation with the mail is extremely worrying as it indicates more corruption may be on the horizon. If there was ever a time for Americans to be diligent, it is in ensuring that the election is fair and that the results are ho
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by Taek 6y ago
https://github.com/exp0nge/wayback Here's an extension to archive pages on Skynet, which is similar to IPFS but uses financial compensation to ensure availability and reliability. I don't know if the author i
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by Taek 6y ago
I don't think anyone is expecting a sha256 collision in the next 20 years. The crypto doesn't seem to leave much wiggle room for exploitation.
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by Taek 6y ago
I am also significantly more hassled entering the US than any other country. And I'm actually a US citizen. The worst part about going to Canada is coming home. Typically a 40 minute affair where 5 different officers pull all the lugga
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by Taek 6y ago
Yes, you really do want to. It would be lovely if we could charge proportional to the externalities. As for how... beats me. Best we can do is rough approximation, and accept that we will continually find out we were wrong and have to adjus
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by Taek 6y ago
I think today channels cost a few hundred nanoseconds. For most applications, this is 'close to no overhead'. If you are doing a really tight loop of course or have threads that bump into eachother a million times per second, you&
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by Taek 6y ago
In my opinion the jump from 1080p to 4K is as significant as the jump from hdd to ssd. That's a lot of screen real estate and especially when programming I put it to use.
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by Taek 6y ago
No price transparency, no ability to choose between doctors, your job decides your insurance. There is no room for a market to function in our health system. With no ability for consumers to move around or even see the differences between d
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by Taek 6y ago
I think this is a very good move for China and think the US should match it.
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by Taek 6y ago
You are conflating markets with meta-markets. The market for healthcare has been corrupted by activities outside of the market. The market has been intentionally manipulated to set up little choice for individuals and even worse, little tra

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